“Here we demonstrate a simple way to produce, without use of any external virus, a mouse disease that displays several main characteristics of retroviral HIV infection…Both diseases are sexually and vertically transmissible , and transferable by cell-free plasma [which was not shown to contain viral particles]”

“This syndrome [AIDS] occurs in a minority of infected persons, who generally have in common a past of antigenic stimulation [exposure to foreign substances] and of immune depression before LAV [later called HIV] infection.”